Locomotive-exhaust.



M. SPBICHER.

LOUOMOTIVE EXHAUST.

Arrmuulox mum EAR. 19, mos

Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

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rams srmcazn. or cumonnne, rmtnanvsnu, 310x011, or cumin" To navm u. GRIFFITHS, or cannomunn, PENNSYLVANIA.

IDOOIO'I'IVE-EXBAUST.

simu 0! Patented Jan. 25, 1010.

ut-non and arms 19, mos. Serial Io. 4,541.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Marinas Srmcnna, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carbondalc. in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have inventmi new and "58f"! Improvement-1 in Locomotiveteriorly of the valve casing or body with a lever arm 14 on which is mounte an adjustable weight 15. Within the scope of my invention, the valve may he of any suitable eonstruelion and provided with any suitable form of yielding means to normally keep Exhausts, of which the following is a specitithe valve closed. and I do not d ir to limi tion. myself in this particular, the form of valve Thts'invention relates to improvements in herein illustrated being used merely for the locomotive exhausts, the object of the invcnpurposes of this speciliuttion. It will be obtion being to ool'ubine with the smoke nozzle served that the portion of the bypass in throu 'h which the engine oxhanstsa sup lewhich the valve IS located is disposed exmenta nozzle and a valved bypass leat in 1 tcriorly of the smoke box so that the valve from the smoke nozzle to the supplementa i and its adjustable weight are rendered easily nozzle and automatically 0 ierativc to reguaccessible. Normally. the valve closcs'the late the draft and prevent ack pressure, as bypass. Under normal conditions the valve hereinafter described and claimed. remains closed. In the event of a consider- The nccom anying drawing is a transable increase of steam pressure, which would verse sectiona view of the smoke box of a increase the back pressure on the engines, locomotive and of a smoke and exhaust nozand hence impair the elliciency and reduce zle provided with my improved regidatlng the power thereof, some of the steam will devious. leave the smoke nozzle, pass through the [av- The hmomotive smoke box is indicated at pass, open the valve to the required extent. 1 and the smoke stack at. 2. In accordance and tinully be discharged through the supwith my invention I provide the upwardly plemental nozzle and the smoke stack and tapering smoke nozzle 3 which is located in lance decrease the draft of the furnace and the smoke box and throu h which the on automatically regulate the same as will he gines exhaust with a sup cmcntal nozzle 4 understood. which is at the upper ent of the smoke noz- What is claimed is:- 210 3. extends around the some and is dis- A smoke and steam exhaust nozzle for posed in the flared lower extension 5 of the hrcomotives. having a su vvplenmntal nozzle, smoke stack. Said so iplemeutnl nozzle also a bypass leading from suit exhaust nozzle to tapers upwardly. iypass ti is also prosaid supplemental nozzle. the intake end of vidt-d which extends from the smoke nozzle aid hvpasv being spin-ed from said suppleat a point. near its lower end to the snpplemental nozzle. a valve in said bypass armental nozzle 4. This h \'pa.-s is have shown ranged to open town rd the supplenu-ntal nozao cmnprisiu a lower pipe 7. an upper pipe zle. and vieldahhlllt'tltls to normally close 8, resl'n't'tivotv coupled to the smote nozzle .-aid valve and permit the opening thereof and the exhaust nozzle. elbow-e4ulpliugs at by abnormal iln'l't'itr-t' of Jean: lift-Mill! in the outer nds of said pipes and a valve as the exhaust n zzle. ing or hoclv to which is boiled to the flanges In tvslimonv whereof I nllix my signature ol'the said couplings as at. ll Iand moments in present-e o two witnesses. them loget her. In the said va ve easin or body is an upwardly opening valve dis or h] element l2 whi h is here shown as vivotod on one side as at l3 and the pivot a which is here shown as provided on one end. ex- I Wit "eases L. l. HIFNNHLL, llonrn'r (n.un. 

